Did you not listen to Cashill? That poem was written by FMD well before Obama was even a glint in his mother’s womb. FMD was probably speaking of his own life experience.
The Poetry of Barack Obama
Following are two poems by Barack Obama that were published in the Spring 1981 issue of “Feast,” a 51-page student literary journal that described itself as "a semi-annual journal of short poetry and fiction collected from the Occidental College community.” The journal is no longer published, according to a college spokesman.